That's one season, let's see where he is in 4
Like I said, RAWKish comment.
We - Txiki and Pep - wanted to buy him for £100m before that season.
Probably because last season before he was the Bundesliga player of the season.
Oh and before that he was EFL young player of the season because he was outstanding in the championship at 16 years old.
And before that he was captain of every England youth team, the youngest ever England u21 player and Englands 3rd youngest senior player.
Jude Bellingham has been on the path to international stardom since he was about 10 years old and he’s delivered every single step of the way from youth football up to being the star player for Real Madrid at 18. He’s made all the difficult transitions already, and your biggest criticism of him seems to be that at 18 he’s not “the finished article”. To which the obvious answer is “who is the finished article at 18?” Foden sure wasn’t, Messi wasn’t, Ronaldo wasn’t…
Maybe he’ll suddenly implode and disappear from elite football, maybe Pep and Txiki and Ancelotti and every other manager at an elite club who’d love to have him just can’t read the game like you, but if he does it’ll be one of the biggest shocks in the last 20 years.
Theres no fucking way anyone who is even pretending to have a credible opinion would say he’s “on the path to mediocrity”.
Honestly this opinion is less serious than “Harry Kane’s just a one season wonder” and not much better than “Ibe will be bette than Sterling”.